General topics

The best way to contact the Children's Wisconsin IRB is by email. Please visit our home page to learn how.

If you're a research participant and have questions, concerns, or a grievance, please visit our participants page to learn the best way to contact us.

To be a principal investigator (PI) at Children's Wisconsin, you must meet one of the following criteria:

• Children's Wisconsin employee
• Children's medical staff in good standing
• Children's Research Institute (CRI) investigator

Children's Wisconsin does not accept students, residents, fellows, non-Children's Wisconsin, or non-Medical College of Wisconsin faculty (or permanent staff) to serve as principal investigator.

Students, residents, and fellows may be listed as co-investigators, but must have a Children's employee, Children's medical staff, or CRI investigator as the PI for research activities.

If a study requires patient care testing, procedures, or medications and is conducted at a Children's site, Children's medical staff or an employee of Children's must serve as PI. Non-medical staff may independently serve as PI on studies that do not involve medical or surgical testing, procedures, or medications. The study must only have activities that the individual listed as PI would normally be allowed to do within the normal scope of practice.

For example, a Children's nurse can be the PI on a study that only includes activities that would normally be allowable within the normal scope of practice for a nurse.

No, Children's Wisconsin IRB only accepts one individual to be listed as the principal investigator (PI).

Other investigators working on the same project may be listed as co-investigators or as key personnel. The PI is ultimately responsible for the conduct of research at Children's Wisconsin. This ensures there is one, qualified individual, with whom final authority and accountability of research activities rests.